0 to give sth a lower rank or designation -- nedgradere
1 to reduce to a lower level, especially of importance -- degradere, nedvurdere
Partial functions of the products are upgraded or downgraded in either parametric or structural level.
In the long term, this strategy has advantages in terms of containing public sector liabilities, but involves further downgrading the contributory principle.
In none of these cases is downgrading observed.
Of interest to the present study is the observation that downgrading is systematically blocked just in case the first word contains a long vowel.
A second practice for downgrading first position assessments involves the use of tag questions.
The report shows that between 1985 and 1990 15 per cent of rivers were downgraded, whilst only 11 per cent were upgraded.
Failure to meet these criteria leads to downgrading to feed quality.
Since downgraded bread wheat will mainly be used for feed, the supply of feed wheat is heavily influenced by the quality of bread wheat.
